The base tools really haven’t changed. It’s just the obscene damage it takes to break higher-tier blocks that makes everything but gem and forged seem worthless. Blocks didn’t have armor like this before Alpha, no? We’re rather accustomed to that. Although I do agree the game is still in need of balance in some areas. This will come with time.
Yes true though I particularly miss these base properties of old gem gear:
- Ruby bows used to be excellent snipers, now they foop disappointingly like every unforged bow
- Diamond 1x3 base hammer was attainable and you didn’t burn through them like cooked prime meats
- [?? which gems ??] grapples were better - I forget specific flavour here
Edit: But yeah, block armour. I’m totally ignoring T6 worlds because they’re so bloody tiresome.
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I’ll have to come check out your shop sometime 
When I first made those and mentioned in a post about forged tools not stacking one of the Devs asked me to post screen shots of their stats, which is why I had those, and at no point has anyone ever said those looked bugged so I’ve always assumed that’s that how sh1 tty the forge is which is why I’ve never touched it since. I’m sorry to say that my faith and trust in this game is very slowly being eroded away which is a pity because I am/was hoping to keep playing it for a very long time to come.
aoe boons decrease the per hit damage as it is being spread over more blocks.
I have seen negative durability (think it was a bug) on an iron hammer that had +1200 added. It counted to zero on the base durability counter then continued to count down to -1199 before finally being consumed on the last hit.
Also up until i think the 199 patch the bleed, slow, and weakness debuffs showed weird gui reference names. They now show properly from what ive seen.
I restocked it last night and later this afternoon Ill have a few hundred or more of Dark grey metamorphic. Its North west of the big red building
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Looking at the forge boon documentation, is this boon still in?:
“Major Mastery Boon”
–>“Master faster with Major Mastery Boon! The Trait that reduces Difficulty required when using Forged Gear”